Weather-strip



(N0M0de1 MGINTIRR WEATHER STRIP.

No. 446,609. Patented Feb. 17,1891.

llNiTED Srnrns PATENT JOSEPH ll. MCINTIRE, OF GALION, OlIIO.

WEATH ER-STRl P.

' SPEClJFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 446,609, dated February 17', 1891.

Application filed May 23, 1390. Serial No. 352,884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH II. MCINTIRE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Galion, in the county of Crawford and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in eather-Strips; andI do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referenee being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in weather-strips especially adapted for use on doors, &c., to exclude drafts of air, rain,snow, &C-, from passing beneath the door into an apartment or hall; and it has for its objects to provide an improved device which shall combine simplicity of construction and cheapr ness of manufacture with efficiency of operation and ease of application to a door, the.

\Vith these and other ends in view my invention consists of a weather-strip made of a flat piece of metal and having a rigid or integral rib or flange arranged centrally alou g one of its longitudinal edges to adapt the de vice as a right or left hand strip and to srengthen and brace the strip or plate, one end of said rib or flange being bent or doubled around one end of the strip or plate along one transverse edge thereof, for the purpose of providing an arm adapted to come in 0011- tact with a fixed stop on the door-jamb to depress the door-plate when the door is closed. This strip or plate is arranged within a longitudinal recess in the lower edge of the door, and it has transverse slots and perforations spaced at intermediate points'of its length, in which slots are arranged the coiled springs for lifting the strip or plate, and in the perforations are fitted the staples which serve to connect the strip to the door and to form the hinge or pivoted connection on which the plate swings or turns, all as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

To enable others to understand my invention, I have illustrated the same in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a weather strip constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view through a door with my Weather-strip applied thereto, showing the weather-strip in its elevated position when the door is opened. Fig.

the rib or flange are made in separate pieces and rigidly united together.

Like numerals of reference denote corresponding parts in all the figures, referring to which 1 designates the door and 2 the jamb of 'the door, to which my improvements are adapted to be applied- A horizontal recess 3 is formed in the lower edge of the door, and it runs from one vertical edge of the door to the other edge thereof, the ends of the recess being closed by means of vertical plates 4;, which are suitably fixed to the vertical edges of the door at the sides thereof, the lower edges of the covering-plates terminating fiush with the bottom edge of the door in which the recess is formed, as shown.

5 is the weather-strip connected to the door and located within the recess at the bottom edge thereof, which strip is adapted to be depressed close against the threshold when the door is closed to exclude drafts of air, rain, snow, &c., from entering the room or apartment beneath the door.

The weather-strip of my invention consists of a flat plate of metal having a longitudinal rib or flange 6 arranged centrally along one of its longitudinal edges and rigid with the same. This rib or flange is preferably made integral with the plate or strip 5 by rolling the plate to form the rib centrally thereon, so that the plate is at thecenter of the round flange, which enables the device to be used as a right or left hand strip; but the rib can be made separate from the plate, provided with a loi'igitudinal groove or recess, and be rigidly united thereto in any suitable manner, as by soldering the strip to the rib or flange. This longitudinal rib is substantially 7 the coiled springs 11, 12, and 13.

circular or round in cross -section, and it serves to materially strengthen and brace the plate and to receive the coiled lifting-springs and the staples by which the strip or plate is lifted or supported. One end of this longitudinal rib or flange 6 is bent or doubled around one end of the plate or strip along one of the transverse edges thereof to form an arm 7, the free end of which arm is beveled or tapered at 8 to adapt it to readily take or pass beneath the fixed stop 9 on the doorjamb, said stop being fixed on the jamb at a point in the path of the arm 70f the strip and so arranged that said arm comes in contact with the stop just before the door is closed, whereby the strip or plate is depressed and forced against the threshold when the door is closed, as indicated in Fig. 3.

. The strip or plate 5 is further provided near its rear edge and Within the line of the rib or flange with three or more slots 10, spaced at suitable intervals apart, and around the rib or flange and through these slots are passed The plate is further made with a series of perforations or apertures 14, through which are passed the staples 15, which are forced or driven into the door and serve to support the strip or plate, and at the same time permit it to be turned or swung a limited distance. The springs have one end arranged to bear against the lower side of the plate to normallylift the same, while the other end of each spring is inserted or connected rigidly to the doorin any suitable manner.

The operation of my invention is simple, and may be briefly described as follows: \Vhen the door is opened, the arm 7 of the hinged plate or strip is withdrawn from the stop 9, and the springs lift the plate into the recess and force it against the bottom of the door, which is inclined or beveled, as shown, so that the plate lies in an inclined position and is out of the way of obstructions. As the door is closed the arm 7 of the hinged plate comes in contact with the fixed stop, the lower side of which is beveled, and the plate is thus depressed against the action of the lifting springs and is forced against the threshold to exclude air, 85c.

Changes in the form and proportion of parts and details of construction can be made without departing from the spirit or sacrificing the advantages of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, the herein-described weather-strip, comprising a flat metallic strip or plate and the enlarged rib or flange integral with the plate and arranged centrally in relation thereto, said flange extending along one of the longitudinal edges of said plate and across one end thereof, for the purpose specified, substantially as set forth.

2. In a weather-strip, a flat strip or plate having the central integral rib or flange along one of its longitudinal and transverse edges and the slots formed in the plate or strip and arranged within said rib or flange, combined with the staples for supporting the flat plate within a recess in a doorand the coiled springs fitted around the rib or flange and passing through the slots in the plate, substantially as described.

3. In a weather-strip, a fiat plate having a rib or flange along one of its longitudinal and transverse edges and the slots and perforations formed in the plate or strip and arranged within the rib at the longitudinal edge, the rib or flange along the transverse edge being beveled, as described, combined with the staples which pass through the perforations, the

JOSEPH H. lVitnesses:

DAN BABST, Jr., C. LESSUER. 

